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Business Partner Category

Business partners can be grouped into different categories with the aim of helping their management and analysis.

Business Partner Category

Business partner category window allows to create and configure every business partner category your organization may need.

• Organization : Organizational entity within client
• Business Partner Category : A classification of business partners based on defined similarities.
• Search Key : A fast method for finding a particular record.
• Name : A non-unique identifier for a record/document often used as a search tool.
• Description : A space to write additional related information.
• Active : A flag indicating whether this record is available for use or de-activated.
• Default : A value that is shown whenever a record is created.
• Client : Client for this installation.

Accounting

Each business partner category allows you to configure a different set of ledger accounts.

• General Ledger : The book containing all financial transactions recorded for the legal entity.
• Customer Receivables No. : An account number in the general ledger to mark transactions with a business partner.
• Customer Prepayment : The Customer Prepayment account indicates the account to be used for recording prepayments from a customer.
• Write-off : Account for Receivables write-off
• Write-off Revenue : Account for Payables write-off
• Vendor Liability : An account number in the general ledger used to mark transactions with this business partner.
• Active : A flag indicating whether this record is available for use or de-activated.
• Vendor Prepayment : An account number in the general ledger used to mark transactions with this business partner.
• Non-Invoiced Receipts : Account for not-invoiced Material Receipts
• Copy Accounts : Copy and overwrite Accounts to Business Partners of this group
• Status : A defined state or position of a payment.
• Realized Loss Acct : Realized Loss Account
• Unrealized Losses Acct. : Unrealized Loss Account for currency revaluation
• Doubtful Debt Account : Account used to reclassify an account receivable once this has been recognized as a doubtful debt
• Bad Debt Expense Account : Account used to book the expense related to a bad debt
• Bad Debt Revenue Account : Account used to book the revenue related to a recover of a bad debt
• Allowance For Doubtful Debt Account : Account used to provision bad debts. This amount will reduce accounts receivable amount. in balance sheet.
• Organization : Organizational entity within client
• Client : Client for this installation.
• C_Bp_Group_Acct_ID : Business partner group accounts.
• Business Partner Category : A classification of business partners based on defined similarities.

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